A High Court judge will be asked tomorrow to approve a divorce settlement in
the region of £17 million between Lord Northampton and his former wife, Lady
Pamela, after the ending of their 20-year marriage.

The divorce, the latest to be settled behind the scenes rather than battled
out in the courts, was triggered by Lady Northampton’s affair with a
Romanian multimillionaire.

Lady Northampton, 61, will receive a £4million apartment in Pimlico in central
London as well as cash and possessions worth about £13 million, reports
suggested this weekend.

But the vast majority of Lord Northampton’s fortune — put conservatively at